Ficher, Jacobo L., Argentine composer, conductor, violinist, and teacher of Russian origin; b.15 Jan 1896, Odessa, Ukraine, formerly part of Russia; d.9 Sep 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied violin, in Odessa, with Piotr Stoliarsky and M. Hait. In 1912, he entered the Imperial Cons. of Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he studied violin with S. Korguieff and Leopold Auer, and harmony, counterpoint, fugue, composition, and orchestration with Vasili Kalafati, Maximilian Steinberg, Nikolai Tcherepnin, and Nicolai Socoloff. He graduated in 1917. ConcertMaster at the State Opera of Leningrad, USSR. He settled in Buenos Aires in 1923. Conductor of the Orq. Sinfónica of ADEMA. Professor of composition at the Escuela Superior de Música of the Univ. of la Plata, Prov. of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Professor at the Cons. Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo, the Cons. Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, and the Inst. Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón, all of Buenos Aires. Founding member of the Grupo Renovación, in 1929, and of the Liga de Compositores de la Argentina, in 1947. Full member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes. He died 9/9/1978 in Buenos Aires.

Latin American Classical Composer A Biographical Dictionary - Miguel Ficher

Works

Chamber operas: El Oso (1952); Pedido de Mano (1956).Ballets: Colombina de Hoy (1933); Los Invitados (1933); Melchor (1939); Golondrina (1942). 

Choral-symphonic music: Salmo de Alegría, cantata for soloists, choir, and orch. (1949); Mi Aldea, for soprano, contralto, tenor, and chamber orch.; Kadish, cantata for soloists, choir, and orch. (1969).Orch.: 10 symphonies (1932, 1933, 1938-40, 1946, 1947, 1956, 1958-59, 1965, 1973, 1976-77); 2 symphonic suites (1924-66, 1926-62); Poema Heróico, symphonic poem (1928); Sulamita, symphonic poem (1927-60); Obertura Patética Exodus (1928-60); Tres Bocetos Inspirados en el Talmud (1930); Violin concerto (1942); 3 piano concertos (1945, 1954, 1964); Hamlet, 4 symphonic movements (1948); Don Segundo Sombra, overture (1954); Harp concerto (1955); Oda a la Libertad, for narrator and orch. (1957); Variaciones y Fuga sobre un Tema de Mozart (1961); Obertura Festiva (1962); Flute concerto (1968); Capricho Argentino (1972); Cello concerto (1974): Obertura Dramática (1975).

Chamber orch.: Dos Poemas from The Gardener by R. Tagore (1926); Gaucho, suite (1944); Preludio, Coral y Fuga (1945); Seis Fábulas, second series (1951); Serenata, for string orch. (1947); Suite (1953). 

Chamber music: 4 string quartets (1927-47, 1936, 1943, 1952); Suite en Estilo Antiguo, for woodwind quartet, horn, and trumpet (1930); Trio, for piano, violin, and cello (1935); Piano quintet (1961); Wind quintet (1969); Tres Piezas, for brass and percussion (1971); Introducción y Allegro, for piano, violin, viola, flute, oboe, and bassoon (1971); Sonatas for 2, 3, and 4 woodwind instruments (1949, 1949, 1959); Saxophone quartet (1957). Many sonatas for string and wind instruments with piano; piano pieces; music for solo instruments; songs; choruses.

Bibl.: B. Zipman, Jacobo Ficher, Buenos Aires, 1966.

Jacobo Ficher´s list  complete works (pdf file)

Miguel Ficher

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